iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Geekbench 3 Score 2967 1674
Geekbench 3 Multicore Score 7935 11793

System Information

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Build 10K549) Mac OS X 10.9 (Build 13A603)
Model iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Processor Intel Core i5-2500S @ 2.70 GHz
1 Processor, 4 Cores
Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz
2 Processors, 8 Cores
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 2 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 2 6144 KB x 2
L3 Cache 6144 KB 0 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-942B59F58194171B iMac12,2 Apple Inc. Mac-F42C88C8 Proto1
BIOS Apple Inc. IM121.88Z.0047.B25.1611011518 Apple Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410
Memory 16.00 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 12.00 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Integer Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Integer 3082 1888
Integer Multicore 8979 14000
AES 3041 176
AES Multicore 8442 1387
Twofish 2765 2398
Twofish Multicore 8554 18919
SHA1 2960 2676
SHA1 Multicore 9132 21130
SHA2 3132 2848
SHA2 Multicore 9708 22395
BZip2 Compress 2733 1971
BZip2 Compress Multicore 8208 15354
BZip2 Decompress 2671 2035
BZip2 Decompress Multicore 8273 15965
JPEG Compress 3376 2344
JPEG Compress Multicore 10332 18223
JPEG Decompress 4500 3134
JPEG Decompress Multicore 13660 22619
PNG Compress 3080 2145
PNG Compress Multicore 9450 17239
PNG Decompress 3242 2339
PNG Decompress Multicore 9371 17557
Sobel 3311 2152
Sobel Multicore 8763 16312
Lua 2970 2258
Lua Multicore 8839 17135
Dijkstra 2671 1680
Dijkstra Multicore 5863 7479

Floating Point Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Floating Point 3007 1890
Floating Point Multicore 9476 14619
BlackScholes 3529 2655
BlackScholes Multicore 10791 20561
Mandelbrot 2800 1847
Mandelbrot Multicore 8628 14619
Sharpen Filter 2826 2301
Sharpen Filter Multicore 8726 17919
Blur Filter 2290 2054
Blur Filter Multicore 7012 16081
SGEMM 3367 1443
SGEMM Multicore 10811 10979
DGEMM 3866 1365
DGEMM Multicore 11713 10142
SFFT 2867 1797
SFFT Multicore 8789 14067
DFFT 2866 1704
DFFT Multicore 8820 12580
N-Body 2809 1852
N-Body Multicore 9646 14699
Ray Trace 3155 2256
Ray Trace Multicore 10833 17782

Memory Performance

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011) Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Memory 2659 817
Memory Multicore 2768 1731
Stream Copy 2581 1191
Stream Copy Multicore 2717 2301
Stream Scale 2584 761
Stream Scale Multicore 2796 1680
Stream Add 2701 695
Stream Add Multicore 2742 1512
Stream Triad 2779 710
Stream Triad Multicore 2821 1537